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Stats and facts on Australian pubs (useless bits of info)

Australia has eight different licensing jurisdictions with many and varied categories of licences. There are Hotels, Taverns, Bars, Off-Licences, Roadhouses, Licensed Restaurants, Club Licences and so on. Gathering information on Hotels or Pubs as we colloquially refer to them, has required making determinations as to the suitability of some categories. We settled on an establishment with a bar with public access, providing either food or accommodation as a basic.

(v) Every Pub Has Its Name:

Everyone's heard of the most popular names for pubs – Royal, Commercial, Railway, and Grand etc but never been sure of the definitive lists or popularity of names. So here goes. Be prepared for some interesting surprises.

While you're at it, there's The Pub with no Beer, The Outback Inn, The Town & Country, The Pickled Parrot, Smithy's @ Plumtree via Stanage, and The Leap via Mackay. Or, you could stroll to the Amble Inn, relieve yourself at The Lue Hotel and you could ‘drive' to The Tap Inn (which has its own indoor driving range). If that's not enough you can wait a while at The Linga Longa Inn if you've just come from The Nevertire Hotel.

Other facts

A man walks into a bar with jumper cables. The bartender says, "You can come in, but don't start anything!"

There are only 25 absolute beachfront hotels in Australia and this includes the Rumah Tinggi Tavern on Christmas Island. To be considered a beachfront hotel you must be able to walk from the pub to the beach without crossing a roadway or some one else's property I'll post a full list shortly.